Robert Frank's Elevator Girl Sees Herself Years Later

[Pablito]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112389032&ps=cprs

 

[BillBingham2]

Scenario ery cool, thanks.

B2 🙂->

 

[charjohncarter]

Thanks, that was very interesting. I saw 'The Americans' at the SFMOMA a couple of months ago. The contact sheets were really interesting. Lots of bad exposures and composition, but the good ones were really good. As I recall he was using TRIX and PLUSX.

 

[nico]

Even though she's still a beatiful woman I'd rather have no answer to the Jack Kerouack's question about the little girl...
Anyway, thanks pablito for sharing this story,
ciao

 

[fixbones]

Great story. Puts a smile to my face =)

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

Thank you, Pablito!

 

[vrgard]

Thanks, that was very interesting. I saw 'The Americans' at the SFMOMA a couple of months ago. The contact sheets were really interesting. Lots of bad exposures and composition, but the good ones were really good. As I recall he was using TRIX and PLUSX.

Yeah, there were plenty of grab shots with odd composition, etc. But I have to say that overall I was impressed by how few shots Robert Frank actually took of a given scene/situation. In most cases it was only a few shots from which he pulled a given one seen in The Americans. One case that I recall because I was so impressed is the shot of a white infant being held in the arms of a black woman. That was the only shot Frank took of that scene and in my view he absolutely nailed it.